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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
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Top team solves mystery
Super sleuths: Jack Francois, Andre Petersen,
Emma Millar and Anna Parsons at the
National Aquarium.
They solved the Great Kiwi Egg Heist and
now they have the certificates to prove it.
Four pupils were last week presented
with Jock McKenzie Awards after
participating in the National Aquarium s
Meeting of the Minds programme for gifted
and talented children.
The theme for the programme this year
was CSI (crime scene investigation), with
students following a trail of clues in the
hunt for a stolen kiwi egg.
More than 160 year 5 to 8 pupils took
part and 32 entered projects for judging.
The three winners in the year 5 and 6
category were Andre Petersen and Anna
Parsons from Frimley School, and Emma
Millar from Havelock North Primary. For
year 7 and 8 Jack Francois of Havelock
North Intermediate was the winner. They
won family passes to the aquarium.
The award is named after a primary
school science adviser who died several
years ago.
Secretive city poll
By CLINTON LLEWELLYN
hmeditorial@ccn.co.nz
Napier residents have been asked if
they are in favour of amalgamating
Napier city, Hastings district and
Hawke s Bay regional councils, in a
telephone poll paid for by Hastings
mayor Lawrence Yule and a group of
mystery backers.
Mr Yule has confirmed the poll was
conducted at his request. He said 500
Napier residents were contacted by a
professional polling company and
asked a single question: whether they
were in favour of amalgamation of the
three local bodies, or not.
Mr Yule refused to reveal the offic-
ial results of the poll until later this
week, but said the results are a lot
closer than most people would think .
Mr Yule said he intended to use the
results to persuade Napier City
Council and its mayor Barbara
Arnott to commit funds to a study
into the potential economic benefits of
his proposal to amalgamate the three
councils into one unitary authority.
The results show there is enough
support out there to have this dis-
cussion . . . and undertaking the
study. But I won t be releasing [the
results] until later this week after
I ve notified the Napier City Council
as a courtesy.
Mr Yule said he had personally
contributed to the cost of the poll,
along with other people from both
Hastings and Napier , though he
refused to identify them.
Mr Yule has said he wants to com-
plete a study into the potential econ-
omic benefits of amalgamation by this
year.
If there are benefits, he then wants
a referendum before elections to a
single authority, possibly 2013.
Mr Yule has approached all the
councils to fund an amalgamation
study, but the only confirmed funding
so far is $50,000 from Hastings Dis-
trict.
Standing tall: HBS Bank Hawks
forward Galen Young scores two points
against the Nelson Giants during their
NBL clash at Pettigrew Green Arena on
Friday night. The Hawks' narrow 86-83
win has secured them a home national
basketball league quarterfinal against
the sixth-placed team on July 12.
Tickets are on sale now from Ticket
Direct. For match report against the
Giants, see page 19.
Photo: PAUL WILSON
Hawks
win sets
up home
play-off